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      Riot Games

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      4.0

      75% would recommend to a friend

      (1,042 total reviews)
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      Dylan Jadeja

      68% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      Riot Games has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,042 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Riot Games employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      1K reviews
      2.0
      Jan 14, 2018

      A company lost its magic with worrying future ahead

      Development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * The culture is great if you love game because people here are passionate about games * Hire for culture and hire smart people. In general, people you work with here are pretty smart. * Perks and benefits are one of the best. Unlimited PTO, free lunch/dinner, snacks etc * The company got lucky to get tons of cash from Tencent in early days and have been living on that pile of cash ever since * Good if you want a relaxed working environment and play games

      Cons

      * Can not ship a new game even after 9 years.. Lack of vision from senior leadership, unclear accountability and bad management make the shipping of new games hard. * No vision nor strategy from senior leadership. All leadership team are new to managing a company this size and no one is willing to step down and let the real experienced folks come in and help (except the two founders..after being too distracted by their own investment outside of Riot and messing up the company's next big opportunity) * Quality of hire has been deteriorating because the pay has took a big hit after acquisition. It used to advertise itself pay like a tech company but's it's no longer true when the HR team designed an internally controversial and unattractive vesting cash bonus plan. * Right now, the company is bloated with too many people doing the same or overlapping things. You will be surprised how many people don't have much work to do and just play hours of video games each day. The company is in a state of analysis paralysis, each retro of a shipped feature will be over 130 pages of powerpoint with 4-6 people working on the data....Good that if you just want to retire, but definitely not good for learning and growth. There are lots of talks in-house speculating when the next round of layoff will come. * Because of the bloated organization, internal collaboration is extremely inefficient and each team sometimes will develop a product that is not compatible with another teams' tech.

      1.0
      Aug 28, 2017

      The Good Bad and Ugly.... Mostly Ugly

      Accounts payable specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Was with the company for over three years and met some fantastic people. The type of people that made you want to go into the office everyday. The campus is beautiful, they feed you lunch/dinner, and there is booze. Mr. Beck & Mr. Merrill are nothing but outstanding people. In house employees coast through work using minimal effort, because RIOT hires temps through agencies to do their work.

      Cons

      The post "Bait & Switch", "Bro Culture" & "Not the place for a professional challenge" hit it on the head and are not exaggerating at all. The sum of those three post paint a real good picture. Temps can work over 5 years without being offered an in house position. Management not open to change. Company is incest.

      2.0
      Oct 24, 2016

      A beautiful shell covering a toxic core

      Contractor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Best cafeteria -Pays for work trips -Does encourage on site socializing -Believes in collaboration -Very accomdating towards personal needs -Always puts the players happiness first

      Cons

      -Very unclear goal and expectations. There will be times you're told you're doing great work, but never be told if its good enough to say. -No accountability. Too much time is wasted in meetings and sit downs trying to figure out what happened and no ever attempts to say 'my fault. I screwed up, I'll do better'. Just ways to shift blame and run into more problems. -Having an office full of workers who are obsessed as the players is damaging because no one can be counted on to have some professional courtesy and get work done first. So many hours were wasted because someone else was in the middle of a game. -Very toxic workplace. Just like the players, coworkers can be rude, pushy, obnoxious, and treat others like thoughtlessly. People behave like jerks and it is encouraged. -And all of it is revolving around a near 10 year old mod, nearly everything about the tech is outdated. Engineers and programmers are wasted on using such old tech. -Contractors get treated like crap. Managers and leads will not meet with them to help figure out what to do to grow in the company.

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